[Mancie]

Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

Suppose we could regard the story in the Daily Express in the same light "a storm in a teacup". "Mum's £40k benefits scam", my goodness the lengths you lot will go to try and score political points!!!! Benefit fraud is and should be classed as just that but it seems you are allowed 77 years to pay it back at just £10 a week Oh forgot to add, a suspended sentence to boot and 120 hours community work, this country is a joke

I don't see how this story is about scoring political points.. I've known people in the past from Accrington that have opted for prison terms rather than pay petty fines.. but never seen them in the national newspapers.